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Consider joining:Today's Health/Excercise "Special" Message:Gay Straight Alliance event spotlights recent suicides"You try to think we live in a more civilized time," said Taylor, 17, a student at Waunakee High School who ran the 5K. "You like to think we live in a country where everyone's rights are valued equally."
More than 300 runners and walkers turned out for the fourth annual Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Walk/Run/Eat at the Goodman Community Center on Madison's East Side.
The event raised about $30,000, twice as much as last year, said organizer Tim Michael, 30, a program assistant for GSA for Safe Schools who on Sunday wore a yellow tutu.
News outlets last month reported on a number of teenagers who were gay or perceived to be gay killing themselves after bullying incidents, including a 15-year-old from Indiana, a 13-year-old from California, a 13-year-old from outside Houston, and Appleton's Cody Barker, 17, a member of his high school's gay-straight alliance, on Sept. 13.
The most visible case was Sept. 22 when Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death after his roommate allegedly streamed a live webcast of Clementi's encounter with another man in a dorm room.
"With so many LGBT young people dying by suicide in the last six weeks, we really need to pay attention to the fact that schools still don't feel safe for all students," Michael said.
GSA for Safe Schools is an organization with roots that go more than 15 years back. It was a chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network until 2006, when it became an independent nonprofit, according to Michael.
The network did a survey last year of 7,261 middle and high school students that found that nearly nine out of 10 LGBT students experienced harassment at school in the previous year.
"The less we talk about it, the worse it gets," said Brian Juchems, 37, program director for GSA for Safe Schools. "The recent suicides make it really clear that if schools aren't ready for young LGBT folks when they come out, those young people become even more of a target for bullying and harassment."
The majority of students who are targeted by anti-gay bullying are actually straight, Juchems added. "It's important for all schools and all communities to recognize that any student can be a target for this type of harassment."
Jean Bormett, 56, who ran in the 5K, said the public doesn't always hear about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning youth who are committing suicide.
"They feel alone and need support," said Bormett, who works for UW Health. "And the schools are the best place because that is where they spend most of their time."
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Judge's ruling on gays in military policy send hot potato back to executive branchBy Alex Kingsbury / October 18, 2010 / US NEWSThe judiciary tossed the politically hot potato of gay rights in the military back to the executive branch after a federal judge in California last week issued an injunction stopping enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
The prohibition on openly gay men and women serving in the military has been Pentagon policy for 17 years, though events over the past few months have led many to believe that the end is nigh for "don't ask, don't tell."
The Department of Justice quickly requested a stay of the ruling until it can be appealed. President Obama has said that Congress, rather than the courts, is his preferred venue for ending a policy he has long opposed. Public opinion polls show wide support for ending "don't ask, don't tell," and the conventional wisdom in Washington is that the policy has only a few months of life left. Last month, in a separate case, a judge in Tacoma, Wash., ruled that a decorated flight nurse discharged for being a lesbian should be reinstated.
It is a messy endgame for what has been a controversial method of dealing with homosexuals in uniform. For the military's part, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have both spoken publicly about the need to end the policy, though not before the impact of doing so can be closely studied by the military. Gates ordered a services-wide study, including a survey of soldiers, Marines, and their families, the results of which are due on his desk December 1. Last week, in the wake of the ruling, he reiterated his call to wait for that review.
While Obama may prefer that Congress legislate the regulation out of existence, the policy's record on Capitol Hill has been tortured. Earlier this year, the House passed legislation that would immediately and automatically end "don't ask, don't tell" once the Pentagon had certified the Gates review.
Then, last month, opponents of the policy lost a critical battle when Senate Republicans held up passage of the entire defense budget because a clause in the bill would also have ended the policy. With the GOP poised to make substantial congressional gains in the coming midterm elections, prospects for Obama's preferred solution are looking increasingly unlikely, gay rights groups note.
The injunction issued last week by U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips comes a month after her verdict in a case first brought by gay Republicans who challenged the constitutionality of "don't ask, don't tell." Government lawyers had argued that an immediate injunction would harm the military.
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
Remember: Boycott Target and Best Buy for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations and to Proposition 8 (California) to prevent gay marriage. The Formal Boycott began this past weekend. I stopped shopping these stores - even though I want a new washer/dryer and new clothes for the Fall. I would not purchase "Blood Diamonds," nor should a person / organization be contributing funds to both Hitler / Nazi's and the Jews at the same time! Obviously giving money to the Jews and not Hitler/Nazi's is the right thing to do. Hence, these companies violated my trust and well-being. They gave money to my enemy who would terminate me from my job, deny me housing and send me to a Internment camp. Therefore, goodbye Target and Best Buy! The CEO's of these companies have been insensitive to our reaction and do not even comprehend their actions! What takes so long to "fire" these Neanderthals?
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